D.C. liable for wrongful arrests under gun ban that was struck down, judge rules

As an alternative, Lamberth dominated, legal guidelines banning carrying firearms in public and nonresidents from registering firearms, and allowing the arrest of nonresidents for carrying weapons or ammunition and not using a license, “go the core of the Second Modification.” The choose mentioned the modification preserves the “proper of accountable residents to hold firearms for private self-defense past the house, topic to long-standing restrictions,” quoting the 2017 opinion, Wrenn v. District of Columbia.